Hi uncle bob, thanks for your info it has been very helpful.

However we really do need that search box. Take this example.

You have a batch of invoices come in -> 20 products to be updated. You have assigned your own product code to the products, so what do you do on the current system.

1) Find the manufacturer... Hmm, 300 of those, might take a while, rather large and cumbersome drop down! Then find the product, 500 of those... again, another slow process.

or

2) Type in the product code in the search -> Hey presto, your there.

Is there anyway that we can pull the code from the search box on the front page, and simply change the form variables?